5 Written Questions

1. making no sense
2. fatigue, weariness
3. setting, environment
4. protest, differ, disagree
5. power to produce an effect

5 Matching Questions

1. "cold shoulder"
2. strident
3. incumbent
4. anomaly
5. arbiter

1. a judge
2. b abnormality, irregularity
3. c morally required
4. d rough, harsh, shrill
5. e to disregard or ignore

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. superabundance, excess
   1. strident
   2. ferment
   3. surfeit
   4. heresy
2. lack of faith, dissent, unbelief
   1. heresy
   2. fervid
   3. ferment
   4. surfeit
3. to be discharged or fired
   1. "swan song"
   2. "without rhyme or reason"
   3. "to get the sack"
   4. "cold shoulder"
4. multiply, spread, produce
   1. propagate
   2. prudent
   3. arbiter
   4. anomaly
5. decreased, weakened, thinned
   1. propagate
   2. arbiter
   3. attenuated
   4. ostensible

5 True/False Questions

1. spurious → counterfeit, false, specious

   True        False

2. ostensible → decreased, weakened, thinned

   True        False

3. fervid → enthusiastic, passionate, intense

   True        False

4. prudent → rough, harsh, shrill

   True        False

5. "swan song" → to disregard or ignore

   True        False